Bill Terrell> Today on Job Man Caravan civil rights complaints are up on college campuses and the areas of alleged discrimination vary from >> housing facilities, discrimination in terms of financial assistance, grades, just general things that students experience on campus.

Bill> In addition, it's a part of our heritage to excel academically.

It's cool to do good in school.

>> Whether it's a male or a female is, is in danger in this society, and that the best protection for that young person is, an education which will provide both academic and cultural excellence.

Bill> Also, you'll meet a well-respected and effective horse trainer known as one of the best.

And we'll examine the impact of prostate cancer on African American males.

>> Black men, however, are found to get prostate cancer at an early age.

Cancer tends to be, more aggressive.

And, the five year survival rate is less.

Bill> Hi, and welcome to this edition of the Job Man Caravan.

I'm Bill Terrell.

Thank you for joining us.

Those features and much more in store for you this week as we endeavor to build a better community.

In addition, a special job profile that just may be of interest to you.

And we'll flashback with one of our talent segments.

But first, we take a look at the mounting civil rights complaints being filed on college campuses.

Patricia Bennett> The climate on the campuses of predominantly White colleges and universities, as relates to African-Americans, isn't always positive.

Incidences of racially prejudicial acts are being carried out all too often.

Louis Bryson> I've been in this business for 24 years.

At one time I thought I was going to work myself out of a job.

So far, my job becomes more complicated.

The used to be overt acts of discrimination have now become somewhat covert, and therefore it makes it even more difficult for students on campuses, for Black faculty on campuses.

for the handicapped, for the aged, for females.

We have more complaints being filed today than we probably had over the last five years.

Patricia> Louis Bryson is the director of the Post-secondary Education Division office for Civil Rights.

He says if a student feels his civil rights have been violated, there are actions he or she should take.

Louis> If a student feels that way, they have a right to file a complaint with the Office for Civil Rights, U.S.

Department of Education.

Under Title Six of the Civil Rights Act of 1964.

They are protected.

Filing a complaint can be done by the student, or it could be done by an individual on behalf of the student.

Patricia> Bryson says he's seen complaints filed in many different areas Louis> Housing facilities, discrimination in terms of financial assistance, grades, just general things that students experience on campus.

Patricia> Few colleges or universities post the fact that students have this right or recourse to complain to the Office of Civil Rights.

Louis> The problem is that they're not aware of this.

Very few institutions have a place listed which tells students what they can do in terms of fulfilling their rights.

After a complaint is received by us, we contact the institution, let them know that a complaint has been filed, and seek certain information relative to that complaint, whether its policies in regard to student housing, for example, seek what the institution has in writing in reference to that particular issue.

Then we will come onsite to the institution, interview those people who are affected, as well as other students who may know about a situation on campus.

Interview faculty administrators or those accused perpetrators of the act to try to reach a conclusion.

If they follow the university policies and the policies themselves are discriminatory, then the university could be found in noncompliance.

Patricia> So what happens if indeed you find, the university in noncompliance?

Louis> The, initial effort is to get voluntary compliance.

That is to point out to the institution what the wrong was, give the institution an opportunity to correct it.

However, the ultimate, goal or the ultimate that could happen to an institution is to lose its federal funds.

Unfortunately, in America, based on this particular law, is an institution who chooses not to receive federal funds, can discriminate.

Patricia> Still, the number of complaints from African-Americans run behind those from women or the handicapped.

Louis> At one time, I think maybe the mood of the nation was that Blacks had received too much.

So therefore nothing will happen if you file a complaint.

But that is not the case.

Something will happen.

Every complaint we receive is investigated.

No higher authority has ever said not to pursue a particular issue.

So the rights, the right to file a complaint exists.

And to the extent that students are aware of it, they should file if they feel that they have been harmed.

Generally, we find calls in about 60% of the cases that are filed, and we are able to get correction, a corrective action and a nearly 100% of the cases.

So institutions once it's pointed out to them, they do correct the situation.

♪ Bill> You're watching the Job Man Caravan, and guess what.

You're being with us helps to make our program complete.

We're coming up.

We'll take a look at why it's important for you to do well academically in school.

As a matter of fact, it's a part of our heritage.

Also, we'll profile a job.

Hopefully that will be of special interest to you, and we'll flashback with a talent segment.

But now on the Caravan, we'd like for you to meet a man who's been involved with horses for more than 30 years and has become one of the most respected horse trainers in the country.

>> Yo yo.

Patricia> Edward Taylor Most folks know him as booty, specializes in the training of American saddle bred horses.

He's been working with these beautiful animals for about 30 years.

He was just a 10 or 11 year old boy when he started cleaning stables for pocket change.

Today, he's known up and down the East Coast as one of the best in the business.

A tailor made horse is a prized possession.

They've proven themselves throughout the years in many different shows.

Edward Taylor> You make money, you own, you show you horse, and you got a lot of people out there.

They watch your horse show and they want to buy.

And I mean, and the horse that you were on this morning, the bay horse.

You saw the second one I brought that the guy he asking 25 thousand for that, little horse... That thing and that guy already called me.

And he's thinking about I'm thinking about sending him up there in Columbia for 35 Patricia> So there is money in.

Edward> Oh, yeah.

Oh, yeah.

Patricia> And that's what all this training is about, competing in and placing high in shows.

To win, the horses must have that special look that special gait.

American saddle-breds are supposed to be a very animated yet manageable horse.

And that's what all this rattling and shaking is about is to get the horses attention.

The show perfect look is ears pointed straight up, eyes wide and nostrils flared.

This attentive look doesn't mean the horse is scared, just hyped, according to horse people.

There are three and five gaiter American saddle breds.

Edward> For this horse, we call it our, walk trot, a free gaiter horse He only had three things to do.

walk, trot and canter The canter is what y'all would call gallop, da loop.

But, you know, you want it easy if the horse can do it, da loop, da loop.

The trot is when he step up and back here and he trot like that?

And the walk... but they got to do that in the showroom.

Patricia> What does the five gait horse do?

Edward> Five gait horse, you walk canter, full gait right and front.

That's five things.

All right.

The whole gait.

You got to teach him how to do that.

Rack... You got to teach him how to do that.

Walk...most horses know how to walk.

but you got to put a little fire to them.

Most horses know how to track too but you got to put fire to them.

A lot of people love five gait horses There's not many people that can make five gait horses.

That's a main make gait anything you see five gait main got to make the animal do that.

You got to teach him to do that.

Patricia> Taylor houses and trains 28 to 30 American saddle breds on his Mary Lane Farms in Eastover, South Carolina, It's a business of long hours and hard work.

For example, just getting this fella's tail ready can be tedious labor.

You can't comb his pony tail.

Each strand must be separated by hand, piece by piece.

Taylor's revenue comes from more than training.

He offers stud service too.

This big fella has four colts running around.

And sales too are very important.

When a horse appears well in a show, there might be several offers to buy it, but people who work with Taylor don't make a move without his recommendation.

Edward "Booty" Taylor a man doing the work he loves.

Edward> Just something about them, You get to mess around and go in the horse show you're looking at him, you'll find out too.

You're going to go, I want to go to a horse show There's just something about them.

Patricia> For the Caravan, I'm Patricia Bennett.

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Stay tuned, there's more to come.

♪ Bill> In the past, we've talked about careers such as the X-ray technician, hospital transportation aid nurse, dentist and dental assistant.

Well, there's probably one health related job you might not have heard of and which is in demand for qualified people.

It's called histotechnology.

A good understanding of organic chemistry and biology is needed.

Johnnie Johnson is a histotechnologist with Lexington Hospital in Lexington County, South Carolina, working side by side with a pathologist, a doctor who evaluates tissue specimen of the human body.

She makes their job easier to diagnose disease.

Johnnie Johnson> It's important for the patients.

It's mainly for the patient.

If that person has cancer, the doctor wants to know in order to treat him.

If I don't get the pathologist good slides, he can't make an accurate diagnosis.

And that means the patient stays in the hospital longer or something like that.

And the main thing you want to do, you want we like we call it 24 hour service.

We try to give 24 hours service.

Bill> But histotechnologist must work quickly and efficiently while preparing microscope slides.

There are two basic forms of tissue preservation.

One is through rapid freezing.

Johnnie> The main thing you're looking for is to make this tissue hard, so that you can cut it with a knife the next day, and it goes through formalin alcohol.

Formalin is a fixative.

The alcohol is different stages.

It dehydrates, takes out the water.

You want to remove all the water from the tissue and then xylene removes all the alcohol.

Then you go through another process which is wax.

Bill> This wax of paraffin is similar to candle wax.

Unlike rapid freezing, this process takes 24 hours to complete a stain to specimen.

At the end of the 24 hour period, the tissue that has been preserved is sliced to a one cell thickness, enabling the doctor to determine what, if anything, has made a patient ill.

Aside from histotechnologists, there are histotechnicians.

Unlike the technologist, who requires a four year degree, a histotechnician can become proficient within two years.

Technologists work more with chemicals, thus requiring them to undergo more in-depth study.

Without a doubt, Johnson says, her job is gratifying and there's room for advancement.

Johnnie> I am into another phase of this.

I'm helping with autopsies now.

I'm being trained to do that.

So you can move up.

We have one girl, Connie, she started out same as I did, and now she's a pathology assistant.

You can move up.

And that's what we're doing now.

I'm working on helping out with autopsies and things like that so you can advance them that way.

And that's more money too.

Bill> All histologists must be certified to work.

A two year apprenticeship with a hospital or private clinic is necessary before the certification test can be taken.

Technologist starting out can expect to make about $12,000 to $14,000 a year.

Johnnie> I think it's a very interesting job.

I never knew what went on inside the hospital, inside the lab or anything like that.

It's is interesting because you see a lot of interesting cases.

There is - but the human body is involved.

If you enjoy science, I think that's this is a very interesting cause, you get to see everything.

>> And all they had was a tumbledown house, a tiny town of garden.

One day he said to his wife, one can get tired of eating nothing but turnips.

See these turnips?

(indiscernible) Not far away there lived a couple with dairy cows.

Bill> Without a doubt, preparation is the keynote to success and one of the ways of preparing our youngsters is to get them off to a headstart by reading to them.

So read to your children, your sisters, your brothers, your nieces and your nephews.

In this our feature segment on the Job Man Caravan, we take a look at the importance of excelling academically and make the point loudly and proudly that oh yeah, it is very African to excel academically (Cheering) Patricia> It's great to be a star, to hear the roar of the crowd.

All of this type of adulation is usually reserved for high schools.

Star athletes, not for those who star academically.

In fact, you get the impression from much of today's media that our young people actually put down the "A" student labeling them nerds.

Travis Salley> I don't have a problem with it.

After a while you learn to accept it, but I really don't think of myself as a nerd.

And if a nerd is somebody who does what they need to do in school to pass everything, I have no problem with being one.

15 year old Travis Salley is a 6'5" basketball star and honor roll student at Eau Claire High School in Columbia, South Carolina.

A school with an impressive array of academic stars, Jawon Littlejohn, for example, is an A-plus student.

Jawon Littlejohn> Some of the students call me names like nerd and names criticizing me because I'm trying to do so much and trying to be involved in too much and they expect me to do things that they do.

But, the way my parents have brought me up, I'm just doing what I know what I should do.

Patricia> These young people defy all claims that our students today are lost.

They have very high standards.

Cedric plays football and is on the honor roll.

Cedric> Being the oldest of a lot family, I feel that I have to be a role model for my younger brothers and sisters and that if I achieve, my goals in life, that they would want to follow right after me.

Patricia> Of course, high school is a difficult time being accepted, being a part of the right group, being attractive to the opposite sex.

All of these are important issues.

Peer pressure, peer pressure.

Peer pressure.

But if you listen to teenagers today, that peer pressure seems to be pushing in the right direction.

>> I really respect, you know, students who make good grades and stuff.

I look up to them as you know, role models and I try to make good grades, you know, so I can be in their category.

Patricia> So do you think that women are more impressed by the fact that you're an athlete, or more impressed by the fact that you're a smart guy?

But what about the young ladies?

Do they like guys who are smart?

>> In my case, yes.

Patricia> And Arman is right.

In a lot of cases.

I asked some young ladies who they'd rather date.

The star jock or the smart guy.

>> I think I would choose the smart guy, because if it's the guy's smart, and I think he would have a good career ahead of him.

Really admire them.

I like you know, to see people making the success out of themselves.

Patricia> Indeed, if we look at who we are.

Success and academic excellence are a part of our heritage.

Dr.

Donald Smith> It is necessary at the very earliest ages that they be taught their history and their culture, that they understand that, human existence began in Africa, that the origins of scholarship were in Africa, the first universities there, and that they need take second place to no one and that to study and to be a high academic achiever is not quite as many of them have been told, but is in fact African in origin.

Patricia> So it is a part of our heritage to excel, and we must stop letting others tell us otherwise.

Houston explained why some kids give smart kids a hard time.

Houston> They probably feel bad about themselves, so they pick on them.

to make, make them look good.

Patricia> Sure, some of the kids I talked with saw smart kids as nerdy, but there was obvious admiration for them too.

>> They're smart.

They're some smart people.

Patricia> Do you ever call them or talk about them and call them nerds or anything like that?

> No.

I'm trying to be a nerd myself.

Patricia> Every academically successful student I talked with said that it was their parents that helped motivate them.

I asked Dr.

Smith for some hints as to how parents should talk with their children about academic achievement.

>> Well, I think the first thing that I would, tell that parent.

is something that, Haki Madhubuti just wrote in his most recent book, Black Man, "Obsolete, Single Dangerous?

", that, that that 10 or 11 year old whether he whether it's a male or a female is, is in danger in this society and that the best protection for that young person is, an education which will provide both academic and cultural excellence.

I've talked about the necessity for our children to know their history, to have a strong sense of self because they know they come from strong, great people.

But it is equally important for them to have a mastery of mathematics and science and to, understand, the scientific method, the ability to do critical thinking.

This is the kind of base that our children need.

I would explain that to parents.

So that, they in turn, could, investigate what goes on in schools and make demands.

Parents have a lot of power that they don't know, that they have.

And if, if they would organize and go up and talk to the principal, go up and talk to the school board, they could they could be very certain that their young people would have the kind of education that will secure our communities.

Bill> The second most common type of cancer in American men is prostate cancer.

But for Black males, it's most devastating.

And African American males have the highest prostate cancer rate in the world.

In this segment, we take a look at ways to fight back against prostate cancer.

Dr.

James Mason> The prostate gland is a walnut sized organ located here, and it's located right at the base or the bottom of the bladder and in front of the rectum.

Its sole purpose is to, supply, secretions that form part of the, male ejaculate.

Patricia> Prostate cancer is the second most common type of cancer in American men, and the third leading cause of cancer deaths in men.

And African American men have the highest rate of prostate cancer in the world.

The peak age group for prostate cancer is from 60 to 70 years old.

But for African American men, the picture is bleaker.

Dr.

James> Black men, however, are found to, get prostate cancer at an earlier age.

The cancer tends to be, more aggressive.

And, the five year survival rate is less.

Patricia> How can we combat this devastating disease?

Dr.

Rudolph> Any male, above the age of 45 should have, certainly an annual physical examination with, with, evaluation of the prostate gland as part of the annual physical examination, prostate cancer in a male less than 50 years of age is, is, very, very infrequent, very rare.

Patricia> The exams are called digital rectal exams.

They are absolutely necessary for men over 45 because Dr.

James> prostate cancer in it's earlier stages doesn't have any symptoms.

So, if a knowledge or an amount is found, early on, a biopsy can be performed.

And if it is prostate cancer, the cancer could be is potentially curable when it's found at an earlier stage.

Patricia> Prostate cancer frightens many men because they assume that the illness will automatically mean sexual impairment.

I asked oncologist Doctor Rudolph Wise if that's necessarily the case.

Dr.

Rudolph> That is not necessarily the case.

That would depend primarily on the stage of the disease.

The treatment for prostate cancer is based upon the stage of the disease.

The lower the stage, the, the smaller the amount of prostate cancer that one has at the time of diagnosis, then in terms of morbidity, complications from the treatment, the complication would be less the smaller the amount of treatment tumor that you have to treat Patricia> Prostate cancer is highly curable in the early stages.

Unfortunately, African-American men wait too long to get checked and therefore treat it.

If you're an African-American man over 45 years old, get a digital rectal exam annually.

It could save your life.

For the Caravan, I'm Patricia Bennett, Bill> With the exception of a little time for click in our Flashback Entertainment segment, that's all we have for this week's program, timewise.

Until next week, I'm Bill Terrell on behalf of the staff of the Caravan, We love you and we thank you for joining us.

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